Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Full reference: G. Ponzi. 1876. I fossile del Monte Vaticano. Atti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei, Serie Seconda 3(2):925-959

Belongs to Leda according to G. Ponzi 1876

Sister taxa: Nuculana (Borissia), Nuculana (Costanuculana), Nuculana (Dacryomya), Nuculana (Nuculana), Nuculana (Politoleda), Nuculana (Praesaccella), Nuculana (Scaeoleda), Nuculana (Tenuileda), Nuculana (Thestyleda), Nuculana acuta, Nuculana acutilineata, Nuculana akidota, Nuculana alpina, Nuculana andrewi, Nuculana antarctirostrata, Nuculana asiatica, Nuculana biangulata, Nuculana chapmani, Nuculana coelatella, Nuculana concentrica, Nuculana cowlitzensis, Nuculana crassiparva, Nuculana cultellus, Nuculana cuneata, Nuculana curvirostris, Nuculana decora, Nuculana dewalquei, Nuculana doris, Nuculana elmana, Nuculana emarginata, Nuculana etheridgei, Nuculana excavata, Nuculana fluvilutea, Nuculana forcarti, Nuculana gnomon, Nuculana gracillima, Nuculana grasslei, Nuculana jamaicensis, Nuculana konishii, Nuculana liciata, Nuculana longifrons, Nuculana mariae, Nuculana miaocunensis, Nuculana minima, Nuculana minuta, Nuculana moriyai, Nuculana multilineata, Nuculana oxia, Nuculana oxyrhyncha, Nuculana parkei, Nuculana parva, Nuculana penita, Nuculana pernula, Nuculana posterolaevia, Nuculana probellula, Nuculana redondoensis, Nuculana rostellata, Nuculana rostratruncata, Nuculana semen, Nuculana semicrenulata, Nuculana smithvillensis, Nuculana socialis, Nuculana spheniopsis, Nuculana sphenopsis, Nuculana thompsoni, Nuculana timorensis, Nuculana triangulata, Nuculana trivitate, Nuculana trumani, Nuculana undulostriata, Nuculana verrilliana, Nuculana vexillata, Nuculana virgo, Nuculana vitrea, Nuculana waterhousei, Nuculana wautebbeana, Nuculana wautubbeana, Nuculana waynensis, Nuculana whitmani, Nuculana willamettensis, Nuculana willetti, Nuculana zieteni, Leda polynominata, Leda haunsbergensis, Leda elliptica, Leda wissmanniana, Leda carolinensis, Leda renevieri, Leda barranca, Leda sulcellata, Leda trumani, Leda semistriata, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda transversa, Leda bavarica, Leda cochlearella, Leda plana, Leda projecta, Leda (Spinula), Leda reussi, Leda obolella, Leda radiata, Leda striatula, Leda catasarca, Leda subquadrata, Leda calcarensis, Leda magnopsis, Leda truncata, Leda alkiensis, Leda magna, Leda decorata, Leda opulenta, Leda nitida, Leda subtrigona, Leda pistorupes, Leda semenoides, Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda discors, Leda borsoni, Leda ingens, Leda distincta, Leda rangei, Leda parkei, Leda vanuxemi, Leda (Leda), Leda (Lembulus), Leda coelatoides, Leda schiavi, Leda longifrons, Leda becki, Leda doris, Leda stewardi, Leda striatella, Leda scutula, Leda subtrigonalis, Leda claviformis, Leda pygmaea, Leda wautubbeana, Leda willamettensis, Leda glabra, Leda deffneri, Leda praeradiata, Leda scalata, Leda excavata, Leda crassiparva, Leda leia, Leda kittensis, Leda houstonia, Leda semipolita, Leda zitteli, Leda gabrielis, Leda dijki, Leda minuta, Leda minuta, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda whitfieldi, Leda zelima, Leda caudata, Leda ozarkola, Leda coelata, Leda lacryma, Crassoleda crassatelloides

Type specimen: Its type locality is Cava Vannutelli quarry, Monte Vaticano, which is in a Zanclean deep-water marl in the Monte Vaticano Formation of Holy See (Vatican City State)

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Cava Vannutelli quarry, Monte Vaticano

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